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Chase Hughes

NBCSportsWashington.com 2018
Ballots cast
6
Seasons
1
2018
Mean similarity
0.68
field 0.77 (-0.09)
No-overlap ballots
0
shared no name with the top

Similarity is rank-biased overlap against each award's final order of finish — 1.00 is the consensus exactly, 0.00 shares no name with it. It measures how unusual a ballot was, not whether it was right: if the panel gets a season wrong, the voter who got it right scores as the outlier.

Least conventional ballot
2018 Coach of the Year — ranked Quin Snyder, then Brad Stevens, then Gregg Popovich, similarity 0.39. The award went to Dwane Casey, who isn't on it.

Every ballot

2018

AwardTheir rankingSimilarity
Sixth Man of the Year
  1. 1 Lou Williams,
  2. 2 Eric Gordon,
  3. 3 Kyle Kuzma
0.89
Coach of the Year
  1. 1 Quin Snyder,
  2. 2 Brad Stevens,
  3. 3 Gregg Popovich
0.39
Defensive Player of the Year
  1. 1 Anthony Davis,
  2. 2 Rudy Gobert,
  3. 3 Joel Embiid
0.50
Most Improved Player
  1. 1 Victor Oladipo,
  2. 2 Nikola Jokic,
  3. 3 Kristaps Porzingis
0.61
Most Valuable Player
  1. 1 LeBron James,
  2. 2 James Harden,
  3. 3 Anthony Davis,
  4. 4 Kevin Durant,
  5. 5 Giannis Antetokounmpo
0.67
Rookie of the Year
  1. 1 Ben Simmons,
  2. 2 Donovan Mitchell,
  3. 3 Jayson Tatum
1.00

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